Term ends Jan 5, 2038 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 4, 2037
Held by Anchor Packaging, LLC
Filed Aug 4, 2017 as application 15/668,929 · Granted Oct 8, 2019
Base term plus 154 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2017
2038
Clock starts
Aug 4, 2017
Aug 4, 2017
Term ends
Jan 5, 2038
Jan 5, 2038
Granted
Oct 8, 2019
Oct 8, 2019
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
Updated Nov 14, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 14, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
154
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 of 3
Maintenance fees paid
Three maintenance fees fall due, at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from grant. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
11
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
This patent's term runs 154 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: High. from the record
How we calculated this date
One row per rule, each showing its own input and what it did to the date. A step we could not verify says so instead of resolving itself.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Aug 4, 2017, when this application, 15/668,929, was filed | Aug 4, 2037 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +154 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 5, 2038 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 5, 2038 | High confidence |
This family
| US 6,786,351 | Term ended Feb 2022 | Feb 2022 |
| US 7,246,714 | Term ended Jan 2024 | Jan 2024 |
| US D536,992 | Term ended Feb 2021 | Feb 2021 |
| US 7,243,813 | Term ended no later than Nov 2021 | no later than Nov 2021 |
| US 7,549,551 | In force Oct 2027 | Oct 2027 |
| US 7,685,677 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
| US 9,278,787 | Term ended Jan 2024 | Jan 2024 |
| US 7,691,301 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2022 | Apr 2022 |
8 of 11 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Assignments
Assignment documents as recorded at the USPTO, oldest first, with the reel and frame each was recorded at. A recorded assignment is a filed document, not a statement of current ownership, and the absence of a later one is not evidence that the last one still stands.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 2018 Reel 46029, frame 905 | Stein, Bruce | Anchor Packaging, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 15, 2019 Reel 49193, frame 856 | Anchor Packaging, Inc. | Anchor Packaging, LLC | Certificate of Conversion |
| Jul 18, 2019 Reel 49801, frame 700 | Anchor Packaging, LLC | Credit Suisse, AG, Cayman Islands Branch, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Jul 18, 2019 Reel 49803, frame 277 | Anchor Packaging, LLC | Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Oct 11, 2019 Reel 50710, frame 139 | Anchor Packaging, LLC | Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, as Collateral | Corrective Assignment to Correct the First Lien Security Interest by Removal of Application Nos: 29/633,906 29/629,808, 29/629,900 and 29/629,818 Previously Recorded at Reel: 149801 Frame: 0700. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Dec 4, 2020 Reel 54587, frame 298 | Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, as Collateral Agent | Anchor Packaging, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Dec 16, 2025 Reel 74117, frame 907 | UBS AG, Stamford Branch, Collateral Agent (as Successor in Interest to Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch) | Anchor Packaging, LLC | Release of First Lien Intellectual Property Security Agreement, Recorded on July 18, 2019 at Reel 49801 Frame 0700 |
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What's changing
Jan 2038
Term ends Jan 5, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 154 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
6
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2019 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.